William Greene Sr.

William Greene Sr. (16 March 1695-23 January 1758) was Governor of Rhode Island from 1743 to 1745 (succeeding Richard Ward and preceding Gideon Wanton), from 1746 to 1747 (interrupting Wanton's two terms), from 1748 to 1755 (succeeding Wanton and preceding Stephen Hopkins), and from 1757 to 1758 (interrupting Hopkins' two terms). He was the father of future Rhode Island governor William Greene Jr..

Biography
William Greene Sr. was born in Warwick, Rhode Island in 1695, a scion of one of the most prominent Rhode Island families. From 1727 to 1732, he served as a deputy from Warwick, and he surveyed the boundary line between Rhode Island and Connecticut. Greene would go on to serve as governor four times from the 1740s to the 1750s, and Greene sided with Samuel Ward during his rivalry with Stephen Hopkins. He died while in office in 1758, and he was succeeded by Hopkins.